DRIVE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drive away mean? 

• DRIVE AWAY (verb)
  The verb DRIVE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

  Familiarity information: DRIVE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIVE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back

Context example:

The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers

Hypernyms (to "drive away" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out (force or drive out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drive away"):

fire (drive out or away by or as if by fire)

clear the air (dispel differences or negative emotions)

banish (drive away)

shoo; shoo away; shoo off (drive away by crying 'shoo!')

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

We stood at the window and watched the cab drive away.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Indeed,” replied Elizabeth, “I am heartily sorry for him; but he has other feelings, which will probably soon drive away his regard for me. You do not blame me, however, for refusing him?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We drive away together, and I awake from the dream.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And to Martin Eden's supreme surprise, she burst into a storm of tears that took more kisses than one and many caresses to drive away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers that threaten you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She could hardly determine what her own expectation of its event really was; though she earnestly tried to drive away the notion of its being possible to end otherwise at last, than in the marriage of Edward and Lucy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

With a few hurried words as to our plans for the morrow he rose and came out with me into the garden, clambering over the wall which leads into Mortimer Street, and immediately whistling for a hansom, in which I heard him drive away.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The carriages were promised, Meg and Mother were all ready to do the honors, Beth was able to help Hannah behind the scenes, Jo had engaged to be as lively and amiable as an absent mind, and aching head, and a very decided disapproval of everybody and everything would allow, and as she wearily dressed, Amy cheered herself with anticipations of the happy moment when, lunch safely over, she should drive away with her friends for an afternoon of artistic delights, for the 'cherry bounce' and the broken bridge were her strong points.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)